The navy-Surgeon: or, a practical system of surgery. Illustrated with observations on such remarkable Cases, as have occurred to the Author's Practice in the Service of the Royal Navy. To which is added, A Treatise on the Venereal Disease, the Causes, Symptoms, and Method of Cure by Mercury: An Enquiry into the Origin of that Distemper; in which the Dispute between Dr Dover and Dr Turner, concerning Crude Mercury, is fully consider'd; with useful Remarks thereon. Also an appendix, Containing Physical Observations on the Heat, Moisture and Density of the Air on the Coast of Guiney; the Colour of the Natives; the Sicknesses which they and the Europeans trading thither are subject to; with a Method of Cure. By John Atkins, Surgeon.

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[1737]